Obama Meets My Low Expectations

Obama's amerikka

Obama is doing a bang up job of living down to my lowest expectations. Splendid job. In one day he has managed to insult George Bush again (whose graciousness and class during this transition was totally wasted on the obamas) he has spit, again, at the honor of our fighting men, and, true to his reprogressive nature, he immediately begins making America less safe, moving muslim vermin into our midst and reaching out to the enemy.

The drab scene above would seem to be prophetic. Not far beneath the ornate surface of BO’s coronation, the real substance of obama’s so-called presidential mettle is composed of garbage. And America is not going to look much better post obama than Washington does post coronation.

Senate Swines Gorging at the Pork Trough: KILL THE BILL

You probably know by now that the monstrosity that the Senate whores passed last night is far worse than the first one. I guess that bill only served to whet their appetites for more. And if this bastard of a bill passes the House, more is what they’ll get.

But you, if you are hard working American who has foolishly paid your bills and maintained your credit for your entire life? You? You are going to be getting it in your nether regions.

There are too many bloggers far more qualified than I to go into the details, details that will horrify you, sicken you. Details that you’ll be able to do little about.

Energy? Sure, there is pork for energy, but not drilling. Not nuclear. God forbid that we strengthen our country, bring down the cost of living and employ millions with honest labor by building the means to energy independence. Hell, that might disturb some freaking snails and god damn polar bears. Here are some provisions that caught my attention, from A Blog For All:

Sec. 101. Renewable energy credit.
Sec. 102. Production credit for electricity produced from marine renewables.
Sec. 103. Energy credit.
Sec. 104. Energy credit for small wind property.
Sec. 105. Energy credit for geothermal heat pump systems.
Sec. 106. Credit for residential energy efficient property.
Sec. 107. New clean renewable energy bonds.

Sec. 201. Inclusion of cellulosic biofuel in bonus depreciation for biomass ethanol
plant property.
Sec. 202. Credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel.
Sec. 203. Clarification that credits for fuel are designed to provide an incentive
for United States production.
Sec. 204. Extension and modification of alternative fuel credit.
Sec. 205. Credit for new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
Sec. 206. Exclusion from heavy truck tax for idling reduction units and advanced
insulation.
Sec. 207. Alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit.
Sec. 208. Certain income and gains relating to alcohol fuels and mixtures, biodiesel
fuels and mixtures, and alternative fuels and mixtures
treated as qualifying income for publicly traded partnerships.
Sec. 211. Transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.
Sec. 301. Qualified energy conservation bonds.
Sec. 302. Credit for nonbusiness energy property.
Sec. 303. Energy efficient commercial buildings deduction.
Sec. 304. New energy efficient home credit.
Sec. 305. Modifications of energy efficient appliance credit for appliances produced
after 2007.
Sec. 307. Qualified green building and sustainable design projects.
Sec. 308. Special depreciation allowance for certain reuse and recycling property.

See anything in there about oil? Nope, but hey! There is pork included for the mentally ill, and a damn good thing because that is what most of us who love America are going to be.

There’s also the Subtitle B—Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

Yeah, I feel much better now that I know that addicts are going to be provided for. Maybe they’ll start putting these miscreants in the foreclosed houses that will be sitting empty. I’m just waiting to hear one of these poverty pimps suggest that. So picture that nice, foreclosed, four bedroom colonial sitting, empty, next to your – now devalued – home being turned over to some pooooooor people who have never earned a freaking dime in their life, because it’s all about them you know. Just ask Acorn graduate Obama who must be having wet dreams over this turn of events.

And screw McCain who put his name to this travesty. I have little love for the man anyway, but it seems he left his powder and his balls in Viet Nam, because he ain’t defending American ideals now. What an opportunity for him to say that it is just these types of “progressive” policies that Barack Obama advocates that brought us to this juncture. What an opportunity for him to ask Obama and his band of advising thieves for a show of the dirty hands that they have had in the Fannie Mae pie for over a decade.

What an opportunity, for a real American with a pair of balls to say, enough already.

But it seems we have few real Americans in Washington, Just the spiritually emasculated and the character deprived clowns who are wiping the back of their hands across their greasy, greedy mouths as they feast on the carcass of America.

The whole idea behind this Marxist nightmare is to redistribute the wealth.

In his Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx proposed 10 measures to be implemented after the proletariat takes power, with the aim of centralizing all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Proposal Number Five was to bring about the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.”
If he were to rise from the dead today, Marx might be delighted to discover that most economists and financial commentators, including many who claim to favour the free market, agree with him.
Indeed, analysts at the Heritage and Cato Institute, and commentators in The Wall Street Journal and on this very page, have made declarations in favour of the massive “injection of liquidities” engineered by central banks in recent months, the government takeover of giant financial institutions, as well as the still stalled US$700-billion bailout package. Some of the same voices were calling for similar interventions following the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2001.
“Whatever happened to the modern followers of my free-market opponents?” Marx would likely wonder.
(Source)

Where is John Galt?

Connecting the Energy Dots

After 9.11, everyone was all about connecting the dots. Oh, if we only had connected those damn dots, we would have seen those planes coming. Well, try these dots. We posted on how Pelosi’s obstruction of an energy vote looks pretty damn bad in light of her investment in T. Boone Pickens’ wind power scam.

Well, Sweetness & Light connects another dot in her comment on Soros’s $811 million investment in Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro Oil.

I quote:

So now we understand the Democrats’ no-drill policies.

They can’t undercut their sugar daddy.

From her article quoted from Bloomberg…

Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.

As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 per cent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 per cent…

In November, Petrobras announced the discovery of Tupi, a field with as much as 8 billion barrels of reserves, making it the largest find in the Americas since 1976.
Continue reading…Soros Invests $811 Million In Brazilian Oil

Now, connect the energy dots to the food chain dots. Soros does, as we noted in Soros, Famine, Energy, and the End of Sovereign Nations. Here is another dot to add to the collection…

Farmland is enjoying its biggest revival in 30 years as investors including George Soros and TIAA-Cref bet that crop prices, chiefly grains, will be supported by shortfalls in production as demand mounts. In parts of the Midwestern U.S., land prices have risen as much as threefold, while broker Knight Frank LLP estimates U.K. values rose 38 percent on average in the first half alone.

“Some of the opportunities internationally are outstanding,” Bridgeman said in an interview at his office in London. He favors farms in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Romania, where he expects higher returns than in the U.S, or his native U.K.
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Billionaire investor George Soros owns a stake in Adecoagro SA, the owner of 225,000 hectares (556,000 acres) of farmland in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. TIAA-Cref, the largest manager of retirement funds in the U.S., said it bought $340 million of farmland in seven states in the U.S. at the end of last year.

Bridgeman said investors in the Schroder fund will gain a diversified range of investments spread across Europe, South America and Australia, while the units listed in London will be traded on a daily basis.
Schroders Plans to Raise $480 Million for Global Farmland Fund

The elites have got to really be rolling in belly laughs watching the stupid Americans scrambling about with all of their goofy Green campaigns, their idiot hybrids, their curly light bulbs and now, their tire gauges. As the grown-up countries in the world scramble to get their share of the earth’s resources – and re-arrange a few borders while they are at it – the dimwitted denizens of this once proud nation shed tears over Polar Bears and mother earth.

Soros, Heinz, Pelosi, Bush, Clinton, Obama, McCain, their masters and their multitudinous retinue of lackeys and international troops of minions are re-shaping the world in front of our eyes while, like obsessive compulsive psychopaths, we engage in feverish discussions about who should and who should not be permitted to say nigger during the most critical presidential election in this nation’s history. We ain’t going to be calling each other nothing but losers if we keep acting like the world is the la la land Obama and crew want us to believe.

If a future generation of Americans somehow survive the debacle we now bring upon them, they will curse us from the depth of their souls. As they should, as they damn well should…

Obama’s Magical Wind and Pelosi’s Wind Investments

The Spectator has a thorough piece describing the lifestyles Americans can look forward to if the magical- thinking Barack Obama is elected. Forget freedom, choice, prosperity and comfort. Obama is definitely going to change all of that. Here are some excerpts, but I strongly suggest you read the whole thing.

But, before you leave, be sure to skip down and read about the real incentives Nancy Pelosi has for blocking a vote in Congress. The little socialist wench has her sights set on lining her pockets while she, Obama and their Ameri-phobic band of Reprogressives fleece yours.

The American Spectator’s Flower Power

YES, OBAMA AND his legions of aging hippie flower children are going to liquidate reliance on the evil Terminator technology of oil and nuclear power, and fuel the modern, high technology, American economy with joyous windmills and happy sun power. Oh happy day.

Accomplishing this, Obama recognizes, “will take nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy.” You betcha. But not to worry, because Obama is going to pull this off with his new neo-socialist, central economic planning from Washington, where the wise bureaucrats will see it all through.

Under this all-knowing leadership, “we will get one million 150-mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on our roads within six years.” That is because, “We’ll invest more in the research and development of these plug-in hybrids, specifically focusing on the battery technology.”

Also, “by 2022, I will make it a goal to have 6 billion gallons of our fuel come from sustainable, affordable biofuels.”

Under the Obama Five Year Plan, he will be “directing billions in loans and capital to entrepreneurs who are willing to create clean energy businesses and clean energy jobs right here in America.” Those “entrepreneurs” will consequently be bought and paid for Obama supporters.

Under an Obama regime, America will “invest federal resources, including tax incentives and government contracts, into developing next generation biofuels” and “raise our fuel mileage standards four percent every year.”

Except for Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama, the whole world learned in the last century that central economic planning does not work. Yet, that is where we are today in our national energy policy. That is why it is all such a mess.

Under Obama, it will all get much, much worse.

INDEED, WE HAVE just experienced a huge central planning disaster with the ethanol fiasco. Ethanol production consumes at least as much energy as it produces, still costs more than oil counting all of its never ending subsidies, actually harms the environment on net, and causes sharply rising food prices.

Food riots have broken out in poor Third World countries, where people are starving because so much land is being used for ethanol production rather than food production. Yet our central planning geniuses in Congress have “mandated” sharply increased use of ethanol over the coming years. This is precisely the model for Obama’s energy policy.

Read it all…The American Spectator’s Flower Power

Nancy Pelosi, the botox crone and socialist whore running roughshod over the will of the people at every given opportunity, plans, like Al Gore, to make a profit from our misery.

Money. It would appear that the driving force behind Madam Speaker’s quick and forceful adjournment of Congress is money.

According to Michigan Taxes Too Much blog, Madam Speaker has a substantial amount of money invested in Clean Energy Fuels Corporation.

Clean Energy Fuels Corporation is a business venture started by none other than T. Boone Pickens.
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peaker of the House Nancy Pelosi purchased between $50K and $100K of stock on May 25th 2007, the day of the initial public offering.

She, and other investors, stand to gain a substantial return on their investment if gasoline prices stay high and municipal, state and even the Federal governments start using natural gas as their primary fuel source.

If gasoline prices fall? Alternative fuels and the cost to convert fleets over to them becomes less and less attractive.

CLICK HERE for Madam Speaker’s financial disclosures for 2007. The purchase of CLNE appears on page 7 of the document. (Source)

Related Reading:
The Pelosi Windfall

Americans speak: “That Pelosi Woman is Nuts”

Energy 101 for Dummies Barack Obama

Obama's Energy Plan

Dear Obama,
You certainly do make a habit of insulting good Americans. Your latest is dangling another government giveaway -what was it – $1000 this time? Was all your so-called community activism strictly performed in welfare neighborhoods? Because you seem to operate under the illusion that all Americans rejoice at the thought of government hand outs.

Personally, I don’t want your dirty money. Because deciding how much profit any business can make and then extracting what you deem to be an excess is dirty business in my book. But then, you and your posse of progressives live and breathe in order to plunder private businesses.
It seems to me that the the government has gouged the oil companies enough. Yet you want more. When is it ever enough with you people?

From Bizzy Blog…

Media Near-Secret: Exxon’s Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits

“In addition to making hefty profits, Exxon also had a hefty tax bill. Worldwide, the company paid $10.5 billion in income taxes in the second quarter, $9.5 billion in sales taxes, and over $12 billion in what it called ‘other taxes.’”
….. In other words, Exxon Mobil paid $32.361 billion in taxes in the second quarter, which works out to $4,114 in taxes per second.

Go to his site to see the graph Perry put up.

Looking at it from another perspective, Exxon Mobil’s profit of about 8.4% of sales, while the taxes paid represented over 23% of sales. (August 1 AM Note: This was originally said to be 32%, but has been corrected. The transposition zombies have been appropriately tracked down and punished.)

It’s remarkable that CNN even reported the taxes paid, as they were the clear exception:

• This UK Guardian article about the Democrats’ objections to Exxon’s profits didn’t.
• Kristen Hays at the Houston Chronicle didn’t.
• Bloomberg didn’t.
• The Associated Press ….. you’re kidding, right?

The word “tax” does not appear in the Guardian, Chronicle, or AP articles. Bloomberg only used the word in connection with the after-tax effect of the company’s Exxon Valdez settlement.

So who are the greedy ones — Exxon shareholders who want a return on their investment, or the myriad government entities who insist that their grubby fingers be in the pie?

And now you are whining because most Americans find your inflated tire fetish amusing. Well, we have to laugh at this point, Obama sweetie, because it is getting rather surreal that you can continue to pontificate, uttering inanities at every opportunity, and the main stream media just let’s you get away with it. It seems like it is affirmative action with you all the way. The media will ignore your every inadequacy in order to assuage their collective white guilt and try to see to it that you get elected into a position that you aren’t in the least bit qualified for.

But sane Americans do have your number, Obama, and a lesson in basic math that your tire gauges can’t inflate.

From Uppity Woman…
Obama: Inflate Your Damned Tires and Everything Will Be Fine «

Properly inflating your tires can improve gas mileage by 3%. Of course, many people already keep their tires properly inflated, and many more are at least close to being properly inflated. Let’s be generous and assume that one-half of the total possible savings would be realized if we all inflated our tires properly; that’s a net gain of 1.5% fuel efficiency.

Americans drive approximately 2,880 miles per year. If we average 24 mpg, we use around 120 billion gallons of gasoline in our vehicles. If, through perfect tire inflation, we improved our collective fuel efficiency by 1.5%, that would be 1.8 billion gallons. A barrel of oil produces around 20 gallons of gasoline, so the total savings available through tire inflation is approximately 90,000,000 barrels of oil annually.

How does this stack up against “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling?”

ANWR: 10 billion barrels
Outer Continental Shelf: 18 billion barrels (estimated; the actual total is undoubtedly much higher, since exploration has been banned)
Oil shale: 1 trillion barrels

So, on the above assumptions, it would take only 11,308 years of proper tire inflation to equal “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”

For more of Obama’s many stupidities, visit Barack Gaffes.

United States F*!**ing Congress – Listen Up- (That Means You Pelosi)

Found via Ed Guberman

President Bush – Recall Congress to Washington

I got this email from Redstate.org. Make the Dims go back to work. Post on it. Mail it. And call President Bush.

Republican members of Congress are on the floor of the House of Representatives with no lights on and no cameras on as I write this because the Speaker of the House literally turned off the power on them and skipped town. The Republicans are on the floor of the House fighting to reduce the price of gasoline at the pump. They are fighting for American families. Democrats have turned their backs on the American people and fled Capitol Hill so they do not have to vote to expand domestic oil production.

Pursuant to Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America, the President can compel the House of Representatives and Senate to convene in special session.

The President can force the Democrats to either vote on energy legislation or not.

Normally the American people are better served when Congress is not in session. At this time, however, the President should call the Democrats’ bluff. Call the President at 202-456-1111 and tell him to recall the Congress to Washington to vote on expanding domestic oil production.

Related:
House Dems turn out the lights but GOP keeps talking

Media Near-Secret: Exxon’s Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits

Obama: Inflate Your Damned Tires and Everything Will Be Fine

Soros, Famine, Energy, and the End of Sovereign Nations

If any of you remember the movie Dune, Baron Vladimir Harkonen was a particularly nasty piece of work, addicted to power and depravity and more than willing to devastate a planet to sate his appetite. This image has always brought Soros to mind, though Soros isn’t the only suppurating, maggot ridden, power crazy, elitist and would be dictator playing slice and dice with this planet. There have been, and are, many – but none of us were paying attention.

Soros Dreams....

When you start connecting the dots, the manner of our demise as a free nation and the West’s moribound defense of all of our treasured ideals becomes increasingly evident. A Soros here, a think tank there, an infiltrated academia, a global media machine that eclipses any method of indoctrination ever devised by man and citizens in thrall to satiating their ever growing appetite for the venal and the irrelevant. The links these passages are taken from will lead you to some well documented pieces on some of the means and methods of our undoing.

In his book, The Impact Of Science On Society, written in 1952, Bertrand Russell wrote, “At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars … War … has hitherto been disappointing in this respect … but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full … The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it?”

Certainly that is a line worthy of George Soros and his cadre of elitist social engineers who, in case you haven’t noticed, are doing their damndest to rearrange the very nature of our world.

Russell is expressing a view, long held by many who might be considered “oligarchs”, and who, for many generations, have held themselves to be superior to the vast majority of the population of this planet.

The simple fact is that the world is not “too full.” It might feel like it is, sometimes, as our basic economic infrastructure crumbles round our ears, and as poverty forces the people of large parts of the planet into having large families.

Today’s hikes in oil and food prices are not the result of population fuelled demand, unavailability, or as a lack of capability to produce. They are purely artificial, as the result of Policy.
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Perhaps akin to the policy that the Democrats and RINOs are perpetuating with their refusal to drill or build nuclear power plants??

A Democratic senator on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee inadvertently explained why her colleagues have no intention of ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling or increasing the areas open for exploration and production – no matter how popular the idea might be with gas prices soaring.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV’s “Money and Politics” last night, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., explained Democrats don’t want to increase supplies of oil and gasoline because they want to wean Americans off of petroleum products.(Source)

George Soros and his boy Barack Obama are on the same page…

On the 18th June, Goergie told a Budapest newspaper: “Rather than expecting energy prices to go down somehow, we should accept that it must go further up first, for us to be able to solve the [long-term] problem. Prices must go up first so as to encourage people to consume less.”

So Georgie wants us to consume less

And so does Obama….

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
(source)

Along with soaring oil prices, add into the mix soaring food prices, partly due to pushing biofuels, and you have the makings of another perfect storm. A storm which George Soros intends to profit from.

Georgie’s mechanism for pushing prices up is typified by his recent acquisition of all the commodities trading and merchandising business of the giant multi-national ConAgra Foods. This acquisition was made by a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, acting as part of a consortium with New York hedge fund Ospraie Management and New York asset manager General Atlantic. The $2.8 billion deal is estimated as the largest acquisition ever by a hedge fund.

The agreement includes 144 ConAgra facilities, located primarily in North America. Renamed Gavilon, the new company provides physical distribution and merchandising of grains, feed ingredients, fertilizer, and energy products; as well as agriculture, energy, and other commodity trading activities, and “risk management services” — i.e., commodity futures derivatives speculation.

It doesn’t stop there. It goes without saying that Georgie is right in there pushing biofuels. Another string to the bow, the biofuels insanity is a strategy that even the greenies don’t want. The ConAgra operations provide “procurement and marketing services” for ethanol and bio-diesel producers, supply chain infrastructure, as well as financial hedging.
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If you are wondering how America has willingly moved this close to the precipice, well, it’s been in the works quite a long time. While all of us were enjoying the bounty of the American dream, the elites have been orchestrating a world order where such bounty will come under their control – along with the rest of us. Obama is but one small chess piece in a game far bigger than any of us has dared to imagine. It really doesn’t matter who wins the election, this game will play on. I mean, who’s gonna stop it?

From Population Control and a World Food Authority

The threat of environmental catastrophe to further the population control agenda is nothing new and continues to this day with the manmade global warming scare. Back in the 1970’s the Club of Rome was not shy at using the environmental catastrophe card to push for population control
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The incredible power that would be accomplished from a massive concentration of food stocks under the control of a single agency did not escape the authors of this report to the Club of Rome. The reigning food situation in the world was dominated by the great dependence of many countries on the North American breadbasket. This gave the Americans a considerable amount of power over their dependent countries.

“the American Secretary for Agriculture who has observed: “Food is a weapon. It is one of the principal tools in our negotiating kit” ” – 29

The further centralization of food stocks under a single international power would only increase the abuse of food supplies not decrease it. This, quite naturally, is the point. The result of this control is well described by Bertrand Russell (who strongly supported this idea) in his 1952 book The Impact of Science of Society [2]:

“To deal with this problem [increasing population and decreasing food supplies] it will be necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilence, and famines, it will demand a powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any nation subsequently increased its population it should not on that account receive any more food. The motive for not increasing population would therefore be very compelling. What method of preventing an increase might be preferred should be left to each state to decide.” – 124

Also see Aurora’s well researched pieces on the topics of famine, global warming, wealth redistribution and the push to erase all sovereign Western nations.

[Ed: all bold mine]

Barack Hussein Obama: The “New Socialist Man”

Actually, I am not certain that socialism is any more the proper term for what the good folk have in mind for us, at least not socialism in the classic text book sense.
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We will get what we need, and they will tell us what it is that we need. And also what we should want to watch on NPR, i.e. The Vagina Monologues and The Color Purple and not NASCAR or football – unless its the good European football. So really, these people are not so much socialists as they are social engineers. In my field guide, socialists are the opponent, but social engineers are the enemy… Now American social engineers want to have another go at building the new socialist man.

Have you ever watched a man in a strait jacket? You immediately start feeling claustrophobic, a sense of confinement, a tightening of the chest. Or, recall the familiar vexation felt when watching a horror flick’s usual fool walking straight into the maw of a monster.

That is what I feel like as I witness America stumble.

At first, after 9.11, before I realized that liberals had become socialists, I was astounded that they didn’t “get it” on islam. As time went on, I became increasingly amazed that they were silent when artists, bloggers, writers across Europe and in Canada were silenced, or murdered, by muslims. And hate speech? To have reached a point where the NYT dares to suggest that there really ought to be restriction to free speech?!? The chill really started seeping into my marrow when I finally realized that the left certainly does “get it”, worse, they want it.

Which brings up another image from cinema.

You’ll remember the movie Independence Day? In one of the scenes a stripper, a friend of Will Smith’s girlfriend, is giddy with excitement at the prospect of aliens visiting earth. She apparently sees nothing ominous as huge crafts take positions hovering over cities across the globe. She just assumes they came with good will. When she gets off work she puts a crayoned sign together proclaiming an exuberant welcome and goes to the top of a skyscraper with hundreds of others to wave her sign in greeting. It isn’t until the last second that she realizes that the portal opening in the bottom of the spacecraft is delivering a devastating terminal force.

That’s what the ululations and mass hysteria surrounding Obama reminds me of. Americans now enthused over Obama are very much like that dim witted chick. Unknowingly, they  welcome the impending death of their country.

Socialism, the curtailment of basic freedoms, is like an alien entity hovering over our nation and Obama is most emphatically the model for “the new socialist man.”

The excerpts that follow are from a site I just discovered – Veteran-American Voices. Every post I have read there confirms that some dark times are coming if Americans do not finally get a clue. And like the cinematic fools walking to their death, America walks – no – marches, with spirited cadence to hers.

If you scoff at the idea of socialism in the US, I suggest you spend some time on the linked site. If you can’t recognize the threat represented in Obama and the so-called progressives, well, why don’t you just go and get some crayons and do up a sign for Obama. And don’t say you weren’t warned.

A free people do not readily give up their freedom and submit to government control. This must be achieved by stages and by manipulation, though strictly for the masses’ own good of course. One of Lenin’s mistakes was to rely too much on bayonets and raw decrees, and to neglect a strategic plan. Lenin and Stalin spoke of capturing the “commanding heights” of industrial production. Our new social engineers seek to capture the commanding heights of social organization. Many of the political controversies of recent years are of strictly secondary importance. Winning on such an issue as Social Security abortion, or minimum wage may consolidate a particular point of conflict, but will offer no leverage or great strategic advantage for future clashes. Three important areas are the war for mass transportation, for domination of education, and for public healthcare.

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We are told that the current fuel crisis is all about oil shortages. But that idea is debunked by the vast unutilized oil finds in the USA and elsewhere. We are told that we cannot touch that oil for fear of spoiling the natural beauty of the desert tundra in a small corner of ANWR or disturbing the breeding ground of the Alaskan mosquito. Nonsense. That oil has been left untouched because those making the decisions want a fuel scarcity and elevated prices in order to discourage private driving. Back in the 1990s, and even into the 1970s, those people spoke of a desire to see the price of oil raised and to see private driving curtailed. In addition to trying to raise the price of gasoline and make it less available through complicated programs mandating a wide variety of additives, they have also taken numerous other measures designed to handicap car drivers. Fuel tax revenues supposedly dedicated by law to road and bridge maintenance are regularly diverted to subsidize construction of urban rail projects and similar mass transit programs. Likewise the same for reluctance to build or widen existing roads. Special privileges and lanes are allocated for busses and other high occupancy vehicles. In some states, yearly emission checks for private cars are used for harassment. Speed traps and traffic light cameras serve not only to raise city revenues, but also to harass drivers. Ditto for random checkpoints for sobriety and seatbelt use. In some cities, they like to use extra wide, and extra long articulated busses which can cause safety problems for cars trying to use the same roads. While some of these measures can be defended on other grounds, together, they collude to present a clear message to drivers – take the bus or we’ll make your day impossible. Nor can this drive be justified by reference to pollution – ever noticed how much smelly pollution comes from your average city bus?
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But of course, from a different perspective, these disadvantages are actually great advantages. The planners can determine where you can go, and where you cannot. And when. Transportation is not for getting you where you want to be, but where you’re supposed to be. If you work for a significant corporation, factory or government office, there will be transportation available at the appointed times. If it’s a small office, you should be carpooling with three or more other workers. And its really not social for you to work alone.

Another benefit is that traveling in a group is good for your attitude. If you are all alone every day on a long commute, you may start to think by yourself and get ideas. That’s bad. Or you may listen to a radio station, and that could be even worse. But if you are with three or four casual acquaintances who are assigned to your carpool, you will each serve as an inhibition on the others, no telling of politically incorrect jokes or listening to heretical ideas on the AM band. What if you heard Imus say something terribly inappropriate, and one of your riders were to laugh inappropriately? Like Japanese schoolgirls on vacation or Soviet sailors on shore leave, it is much better for citizens to travel in groups, lest someone might say or do something unthinkable. This is a part of our new reality in which everyone should be organized and every activity part of an official league. Just as stickball must be eliminated in favor of Little League. Apart from the group is danger, only within the group shall be certainty and safety.
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Once travel, even for short distances becomes an expense and a major burden, people will need to move in and live closer to their place of work and where they shop. Gradually it will save the pristine countryside from the further spread of suburbanization. And it may even gradually roll back the suburbs. And that’s good. People can be kept under better control. If they can’t travel out to the countryside, groups like the Michigan Militia won’t be able to shoot or practice their militias, won’t be able to conspire their horrid resistance. People can live in closely packed little condos, and tightly-knit, carefully planned communities. No more wasteful and polluting barbecues. Integration and affirmative action will be able to proceed to their desired completion. True, it will mean visits to Disney World will be rare, but then Disney is tacky anyway. Citizens should use their free time for mandatory volunteer work for the community, giving something back as they say, and for consciousness raising sessions to remind them how good they have it, now that they no longer have to deal with road traffic and driving lessons, and such. See how much better life will be, how much warmer community will be once the social engineers have restored us to the immobility that nature intended.
Continue reading….The New Social Engineers – I

Also see The New Social Engineers – II

Barack Obama Bad for Canada Too

Obama’s Vow Could Threaten Industry

– Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed he would break America’s addiction to “dirty, dwindling and dangerously expensive” oil if he is elected U.S. president — and one of his first targets might well be Canada’s oilsands.

A senior adviser to Obama’s campaign told reporters it’s an “open question” whether oil produced from northern Alberta’s oilsands fits with the Democratic candidate’s plan to shift the U.S. sharply away from consumption of carbon-intensive fossil fuels.

“If it turns out that those technologies don’t advance … and the only way to produce those resources would be at a significant penalty to climate change, then we don’t believe that those resources are going to be part of the long-term, are going to play a growing role in the long-term future,” said Jason Grumet, Obama’s senior energy adviser.
The remarks amount to a shot across the bow of Alberta’s oilsands industry, which is planning to boost production from 1.3 million barrels a day to 3.5 million barrels over the next decade.

The industry has come under sustained attack from U.S. environmentalists over the past year because the production of its heavy oil emits an estimated three times more greenhouse gases than conventional oil.

The Toxicity of Progressive "Change"

If everything that Midas touched turned to gold, everything “Progressives” touch turns cancerous. A blood cancer, redistributing death to a, heretofore, healthy body.The West mutates before our eyes…..

How much more pain must Americans endure before our masters in Washington let oil companies punch a few holes in the Alaskan tundra? Must we shiver pennilessly in the dark before we may extract new domestic petroleum deposits? Or shall we simply keep buying $114 barrels of oil from people who want us dead?

In case Congress missed the news, four U.S. airlines have gone broke during this month alone. Frontier declared bankruptcy, but will continue flying. Even worse, Aloha, ATA, and Skybus blamed unaffordable fuel as they grounded their jets. Aloha said sayonara to 1,900 employees, NBC News reports. ATA’s demise destroyed 2,200 jobs, while Skybus sacked 450 workers, atop the 80,000 positions lost across the economy as unemployment spiked from 4.8 percent in February to 5.1 in March.

Continue reading… More Oil Drilling, Please

The facts about capital gains rates and revenues are well known to our readers, but we’ll repeat them as a public service to the Obama campaign. As the nearby chart shows, when the tax rate has risen over the past half century, capital gains realizations have fallen and along with them tax revenue. The most recent such episode was in the early 1990s, when Mr. Obama was old enough to be paying attention. That’s one reason Jack Kennedy proposed cutting the capital gains rate. And it’s one reason Bill Clinton went along with a rate cut to 20% from 28% in 1997.

Either the young Illinois Senator is ignorant of this revenue data, or he doesn’t really care because he’s a true income redistributionist who prefers high tax rates as a matter of ideological dogma regardless of the revenue consequences. Neither one is a recommendation for President.

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Obama’s Tax Evasion

So New Zealanders are to be taxed to hell and back and these morons are promoting the manufacture of biofuels despite all the evidence that they cause massive hikes in food prices–all to send the “right signals” to those foolish oil companies!

The companies which employ engineers and economists and all kinds of other technical staff who–apparently–don’t have access to the wisdom this socialist fucking moron has?

Arrogant. Stupid. Dishonest. No wonder he rose to cabinet rank in the sleaziest, most corrupt government this little country has ever had the misfortune to suffer. Continue reading…What a pity breathing is an involuntary reflex…

Health Minister Nicola Roxon said one idea put forward in a submission was an annual national fitness test where citizens would receive a financial incentive if they pass. Health stream participants in the 2020 summit also discussed increasing public education about how death can be a “positive experience” to avoid patients panicking when they reach hospital emergency departments… many participants had suggested a ban on cigarette sales by 2020…

“I actually think we need to price foods according to their environmental and health impact, rather than harping at people to eat this or that,” she said…. (New.com.au)

“What a surprise eh, a bunch of raving leftists get together and the plans they come up with involved a lot of “forced/cajoled” activities. Oh but lefties are the guardians of liberty and all that folks, can you see the obese pigs gliding majestically by!

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If someone else is coughing up for your healthcare, then you don’t get to do what you feel like. Sorry folks, with responsibility goes liberty, if you want liberty, you must take responsibility. So expect this sort of thing to start happening slowly, you have wall-to-wall Labor now and you’re not willing to grow up.”

Continue reading…2020 Summit – A Socialist Totalitarian Wet Dream

Congress has succeeded in making the student loan business less profitable. It did not think about the consequences of this, of course, but it should now see–if there is any wit on Capitol Hill–that when you make a business less profitable via government fiat, you decrease the incentives for that business to continue in its previous robust fashion–if at all.

Et voilà, that is precisely what we are seeing. Student loan lenders can’t make as much of a profit thanks to the caps on the interest rates they charge. As a result–especially given the current credit crunch–they are scaling back their activities or cutting out of the student loan business altogether. And this only serves to harm students. Nice work, Congress. What do you do for an encore? Have Speaker Pelosi start brush fires in California? continue reading… Please Stop Helping